Previously, Lu Xiaotian had needed to rely on the forceful suppression of his Primordial Spirit to control all five types of spiritual energy together. Yet before long, the mutually restraining natures of the five energies would break out directly once his divine sense was excessively depleted and could no longer suppress them with force. When Lu Xiaotian had tried using high-grade Spirit Stones, he had even been injured by an explosion once.
Later, Lu Xiaotian realized that forcibly suppressing them with divine sense was not a solution. Different elemental powers could be forcibly held together to solve the problem for a time, but an explosion was only a matter of sooner or later. It was spring then, when all things revived. After repeatedly failing in his experiments with this Five-Element Formation, Lu Xiaotian, troubled and frustrated, gazed into the distance from the small courtyard on Green Locust Island. Rain poured down in torrents, and he remained standing there for an entire day and night before the gloom in his heart gradually began to settle. After the rain, a fresh scent drifted over from the island's grass and woods. Just as Lu Xiaotian was preparing to continue studying the Five-Element Formation, he saw the tender green shoots amid the grass and trees, as well as the faint sounds of bamboo shoots breaking through the earth. This seemingly ordinary scene flashed through Lu Xiaotian's mind like lightning. The Five Elements restrained one another, but they also gave rise to one another. The principle was simple, but those who could truly grasp this realm of meaning were few and far between. The several Five-Element Formations Lu Xiaotian had refined before, including the Five-Element Maze Formation and the Five-Element Crane Strike Formation—
—had merely used the principle of mutual generation and restraint among the